> -----Original Message----- > From: James Hess [mailto:mysi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:08 PM > To: George Bonser > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> > wrote: > > Any school teaching v4 at this point other than as a legacy protocol > > that they teach on the second year because "they might see it in the > > wild" should be closed down. All new instruction that this point > > should begin and end with v6 with v4 as an "aside". But that isn't. > > > > They would be doing the student, their customer, a disservice to not teach > both, with emphasis on V4, just because one possible speculated outcome > in the years ahead is that IPv4 becomes a legacy protocol. > Schools do not have crystal balls, and they can't know how important > IPv4 or IPv6 will be to those taught later.
I've been taking some networking classes for my undergrad college degree, and there've only been about 3 mentions of IPv6 during the whole time I've been here (at supposedly a high-tech school). Also, did I mention we're still being taught classful networking? I've never heard my professors udder the CIDR acronym or talk about subnetting. Hopefully this changes as students progress into the higher-level classes, but I wouldn't want to be the one attempting to get a job with no knowledge of what's changed since my professor was in school. ---------- Stephen (Trey) Repetski skr3...@rit.edu | skrepet...@gmail.com srepetsk.net | RIT '13, TJHSST '09
